The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-11-05
IN THE WORLD OF LABOR.
Specially Compiled for the Toilersby an.Ad
vocate Man

Specially Compiled for the Toilersby ansAd
vocate Man
The EMPLOYEES of the Ashley car shops
have commenced working nine hours
day.
The annual production Of bricks is sale
to be 5000, 600, 600. There are ten thous
and brick and tile manufactures in Tho
county.
Work on the extension of the Lehigll
and Lackawanna railroad will be pushed
rapidly now, as the trouble about the righ
of way has been settled. The engineers
are mile east of Stroudsburg,
For the week ending on the 9th inst.
there we're 02, 1877 tons of coal shipped ovei
the l.. & s. R.R.,a total to date of 4.122, S9S
tons, showing an increase as compared VIII
same date last year of 6,322 tons.
The car works at Fullerton, Lehlgl
county, will resume operations on Monday
after an idleness of two years, and the new
place will start up at the same time, giving
employment to several hundred hands.
For the week ending Nov 9th, theN
were 103, ,96S tons of coal shipped over The
Lehigh Valley railroad, making total tC
date of 6,280, 200 tons, and showing an in
crease of 4e,057 tons compared with same
date last year.
Work on the erection of the mammoth
new steel plate mill of Catasauqua Manu-
featuring Company at Ferndale has been
so far advanced that it was started up in
part on Wednesday. Several heats of pud
die iron were made.
The freight and coal traffic on this
branch says Sbhulykil county exchange
of the Reading road is simply immense,
| Sunday used to be day of rest but there
fn0 ha |.
ed on that day than on any of the week
An order was issued on Monday from
the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
headquarters curtailing the hours for
days work from ten to nine hours. A re-
duction of ten per cent. in the wages OF
course take place. This order affects the
employees In the Packerton car shops,
many of whom are residents Of this place
and vacinity. The strike is evidently max
| ing itself felt in cooperative quarters.
On June 1st, of the present year, Coy
ernor Beaver approved an act passed by the
State Legislature making it unlawful for
persons or firms, companies and associa-
| tions to employ children under the age OF
twelve years to do any work in or about
any mill, mine or mandatory in this
Commonwealth. Any person or corpora
tion violating this law shall, on con-
yiction, pay fine of not less than twenty
dollars nor more than one hundred dol
lars.
1t is gratifying to learn that the Master
Car Builders Association has adopted a
certain type of autamatic coupler for use
on American railroads. When it is born e
in mind that last year nearly 100 men were
killed and more than 1000 injured in the
act of coupling cars it is readily under
stood how necessary it is that the old link
and pin device should be abanded. That
this primitive arrangement is unworthy
Of an era of invention and progress has long
been felt.
Many British workmen are found scat
high rates of wages. They generally go
out on term of years with passage paid
out and home again, but seldom return to
work, frequently settling down as keepers
of public-houses, or, If educated men, start
ing in some business. At the present time
there are many skilled workmen and edu-
Gated engineers who have not hands
turn to do in England, and they are glad to
find employment in some foreign country.
Miners in the anthracite coal regions
strike for an advance in wages which
amounts to less than three cents ton,
which the operators say they cannot afford
to give. Meantime some of the coal COM
panies "strike' for an increase Of rs cents
ton and the consumers have nothing to
do but to pay the advance. There is not
coal buyer in Pennsylvania, probably,
who would not willingly give three cents a
ton more to insure the miners living wages,
but the very naturally object to paying
twenty-five cents ton extra while the
miners are still deprived of fair rate of
wages. Hazleton STANDARD.
An exchange very sensbly remarks.
When laboring men who get good pay st op
bowling for an increase of their own wages
and work to place the poorly paid in a
position to make respectable living, some
real. lasting good may be accomplished.
The trouble has been that every man has
considered himself the party for whom the
reform movement was inaugua,el and
| whenever it is proposed to render assistance
to anyone save himself he becomes perfect
| ly Indifferent. There are thousands OF
| people on this continent whose earnings dc
| not enable them to enjoy half the nece ssar-
les of life. These are the people who are
most in need of assistance and these it is
our duty TO assist.
All thirgs considered, the past -four
months have been the best four months
that labor ever enjoyed. All kinds of ur-
gent request at good wages. Employers in
many cases have been so crowded as to be
obliged to refuse new work; in the first
place, because of lack of facilities for turn
| ing it out, and, in the second place, fol
lack of properly skilled labor. There is al
this time great deal of work delayed or
this account, most Of tin the New England
States, where vast amount of machinery
tools and appliances OF a hundred kinds
are made. There are no indications al
present of falling off in activity in thi!
| line. On this account quite a number O
enlargments are projected in the yarion'
manufacturing north, east, west, and south